Twenty-two years ago while traveling through India, I stumbled across a man who would change my life forever. Seeing him for the first time was like looking in a mirror at my own destiny. I saw in him the flowering of what was still lying dormant as a seed in me. Hearing him speak was like listening to music of a mountain stream as he gave words to my innermost thoughts and feelings. His name at that time was Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and he was to become my spiritual master.

Falling in love with this remarkable man, I fell in love with my inner lover. His eyes were windows to my soul and the skies beyond. In meeting him, I ultimately met myself. On March 28, 1976, he gave me sannyas and new name - Swami Anand Milarepa. He explained that Milarepa had been a yogi/saint who lived in Tibet during the tenth century AD, and suggested I find the book of his sutras called, The One Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa and "tune into it".

On January 19, 1990, the master left his body. Before dying, he dropped his name and asked that people to refer to him simply as Osho - an Eastern name used to describe a person who has become one with the oceanic experience of existence. Since then, my connection with him has both deepened and expanded. His light shines throughout my inner and outer world like a rainbow - always bringing new insights, new understandings, greater ecstasies. My love affair as his disciple has truly become what he would describe as a Great Affair: a love affair with the whole existence.

Osho continues to be the greatest inspiration in my life. I am and will be forever grateful to him. To this day, I feel his love at my deepest level of being. The longing that took me to his feet so many years ago, continues to take me ever deeper within myself - an eternal voyage of self discovery.

My music reflects a personal awareness and understanding of meditation. Its themes are universal and can be appreciated by all fellow travelers on the Path. For in Osho’s vision, we are only on this beautiful planet to celebrate and rejoice the great mystery of life - with our songs, our dances, our silences of the heart. As humanity moves into the twenty-first century, this message could never be more relevant.

May your aim be straight and true . . .

                                                                       Milarepa